posts from june, 2008
“San Francisco is to hold a vote on whether to rename one of its largest sewage treatment facilities after George W. Bush, in what supporters describe as ‘a fitting monument to the President’s work.’” (381 words) via Reddit
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Lingering questions about the iPhone 3G
Monday, June 9th, 2008, 3:35 pm EDT
The awesome iPhone 3G has been officially announced, but many questions have been left unanswered.
The price: we know it’s supposed to be cheap, but is this $199 8GB base price part of a contract? If the actual price without a contract is higher, can we re-start our contracts to get this deal?
Answer: Nailed it. Previous iPhone customers can upgrade and renew their contract to secure the new $199 price level. ∞
- What do we do with our old iPhones? If we don’t want them, are they bricks? Will they resell? Is there a trade-in program so we can recover some of the costs and maybe even recycle the materials?
- What about Flash support? It’s getting pretty ridiculous that we can’t access such a large part of the web. I understand this is largely the fault of the web developers, but there’s no reason that we still lack Flash support.
- Did they nail copy and paste this time?
- Does it support video? Can we teleconference?
- When can we demo it in stores? What were those packages that were to be opened tomorrow? I called both AT&T and Apple stores, but retail employees haven’t heard anything yet.
- How will 3G hold up with the upcoming surge of users?
- Is the battery replaceable?
- What happens to the iPod Touch? Will they discontinue it?
- Is there support for wallpapers? Can applications at least change that?
- Is the processor any faster?
- Is there some way (first- or third-party) to do MMS?
- This is still an amazing piece of technology. How the hell did they do that? Is everybody going to have one of these now?
As the economy dwindles, the wealthy are stressing over being less wealthy (1,465 words). Do I hear buying opportunity? If you’re in that troubling situation where you can’t afford your Rolex, I guess I could take it off your hands for $10 or so. via Reddit
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